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Little Sunbeams

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 24.

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Little Sunbeams.

I HEARD a tiny snow-bird chirping the other day, and it seemed to carry me away back to the bright, glad summer-time—and I was listening again to the songs of bird-love that thrilled all those warm, sunny days, and to the clear sweet laughter of dimpled rills as they plashed over the stones. And then I thought how we all might bring a sunbeam from the warm, golden summer of our lives, and fling it where it would cast a bright gleam over some tired heart’s dark mid-winter, making it happy, just as that tiny bird sent a thrill of gladness all over my heart.
There are weary souls whose gushing rills of joy are all ice-bound by sorrow and neglect. Can we not send some warm, balmy breeze of kindness to melt all the snows away? Only a smile, or a loving word, and God will bless you, and the watching angels will be glad.